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Darkstar One cover art

Darkstar One

Ascaron Entertainment ltd. · Strategy First · 2008-02-13

SteamGOGXbox

Action

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jun 16, 2006 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Darkstar One offers a fantastic amount of freedom of choice. The story-based missions gradually lead you deeper into the galaxy to new races, new technologies and ever stronger opponents. Explore a vast array of solar systems in search of hidden artifacts of ancient races, essential objects for upgrading your ship--the Darkstar One.

1
playing now
84%
positive of 625 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
73/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
76/100
IGDB user rating (13 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$8.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 06:00 UTC (census sample)

DarkStar One is a space trading and combat simulator game developed by German studio Ascaron and published by CDV.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 42% of 10,791 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 25k–50k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 625 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GamersGate$1.80-80%
GOG$1.99-80%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$1.99-80%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.74 at GamersGate (2022-07-11) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 58 of 96 observed days · $1.25 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

912026-08-11 17:00 — 5 players2026-08-12 09:00 — 2 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 2 players2026-08-15 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 3 players2026-08-16 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 4 players2026-08-18 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-18 23:00 — 3 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 2 players2026-08-20 23:00 — 3 players2026-08-21 14:00 — 2 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 5 players2026-08-23 14:00 — 2 players2026-08-24 05:00 — 1 players2026-08-24 21:00 — 2 players2026-08-25 13:00 — 2 players2026-08-26 05:00 — 3 players2026-08-26 22:00 — 4 players2026-08-27 14:00 — 4 players2026-08-28 05:00 — 2 players2026-08-28 22:00 — 5 players2026-08-29 13:00 — 9 players2026-08-30 06:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$10.77$0.852015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $1.992015-06-11 — best price $1.492016-02-12 — best price $9.992016-07-25 — best price $7.992017-06-21 — best price $9.992017-12-21 — best price $1.992018-04-20 — best price $9.992018-08-06 — best price $9.992019-01-14 — best price $1.992019-08-12 — best price $9.992020-01-02 — best price $9.992020-03-02 — best price $1.992020-07-10 — best price $9.992020-11-16 — best price $9.992021-03-17 — best price $9.992021-06-18 — best price $2.002021-08-26 — best price $9.992021-11-15 — best price $9.992022-01-27 — best price $1.992022-05-05 — best price $9.992022-08-29 — best price $1.492023-01-03 — best price $9.992023-04-10 — best price $9.992023-08-06 — best price $9.992023-12-11 — best price $1.352024-03-07 — best price $1.352024-06-19 — best price $1.992024-11-04 — best price $1.352025-03-20 — best price $8.992025-07-21 — best price $8.992025-10-22 — best price $1.792026-02-16 — best price $8.992026-05-31 — best price $9.992026-08-21 — best price $8.992026-08-30 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2812026-05-30 — 15 pageviews2026-06-02 — 4 pageviews2026-06-05 — 11 pageviews2026-06-08 — 28 pageviews2026-06-11 — 13 pageviews2026-06-14 — 19 pageviews2026-06-17 — 15 pageviews2026-06-20 — 8 pageviews2026-06-23 — 16 pageviews2026-06-26 — 15 pageviews2026-06-29 — 13 pageviews2026-07-02 — 14 pageviews2026-07-05 — 5 pageviews2026-07-08 — 11 pageviews2026-07-11 — 11 pageviews2026-07-14 — 23 pageviews2026-07-17 — 23 pageviews2026-07-20 — 14 pageviews2026-07-23 — 10 pageviews2026-07-26 — 9 pageviews2026-07-29 — 12 pageviews2026-08-01 — 24 pageviews2026-08-04 — 9 pageviews2026-08-07 — 24 pageviews2026-08-10 — 16 pageviews2026-08-13 — 20 pageviews2026-08-16 — 20 pageviews2026-08-19 — 10 pageviews2026-08-22 — 19 pageviews2026-08-25 — 1 pageviews2026-08-26 — 15 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Xbox 360 (Xbox)3,4587%50

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

RPGSpaceActionSci-fiSpace SimOpen WorldSimulationSpaceshipsExplorationSingleplayer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.

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